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Summary

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Sam Hardacre makes a tough yet honest living as a fish gutter. But he has ambitions for a life far removed from the harsh existence on the quays of the north English coast. Through drive and determination he builds a business empire and amasses a fortune. His wife, Mary, once a poor street urchin, must learn to adapt to her new role as mistress of a grand house in Yorkshire.

Sam's sons, Joe and Harry, inherit some but not all of their father's qualities. Their opposing personalities lead them to make very different choices about their futures. Meanwhile, their younger sister, Jane, is born into a life of privilege and has no experience of her family's early struggles.

The three siblings and their offspring will know love, hate, passion and tragedy, as they live through the dramatic events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The lives of the Hardacres are shaped by the extraordinary events of the Boer War, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash, the Second World War, Hitler's Germany, and the London Blitz.

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Reader.

The reader of this story read very well BUT the silly voices were painful. The men’s voices sounded the same and painful. Pronunciation of words were appalling and it contained messages from the reader to the editor!

More research needed before commencement of reading

I love Hardacre. My mother had it when I was young and used to read it sometimes to me. I read it myself recently, and then was delighted when I saw it on audible. Within minutes that delight faded. Justine has clearly not heard any “Yorkshire” accent or many of the names or words used in the book, she made Sam and Mary essentially Irish, and had no vocal ability for the Scottish characters or any of the others. Such a shame.